Upper Don Trail

The route is variable in quality, the first mile is well defined as it has been integrated into the newly developed quarters to the immediate north of the city centre.

The Upper Don Walk Trust was formed in 2004 as a registered charity and was made up of interested people, organisations and planners.

The walk continues on a tarmac path on the south bank of the river passing the Nursery Street footbridge and a stone rectangular column which is the memorial to the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864.

The walk negotiates the Bridgehouses roundabout using pedestrian crossings and continues through the Kelham Island Quarter passing the associated industrial museum.

[1][3] The original plans for the walk called for a footbridge to link Kelham Island back to the south bank of the river at the Brooklyn Works.

[1] The next one and a half mile section to reach Beeley Wood is once more on asphalt roads, there are two recommended routes, one goes via Middlewood Road with the route leaflet recommending a visit to the Niagara weir at the bottom of the Winn Gardens estate, however the weir was damaged in the 2007 floods and is now only half of its original height of 10 feet and not so impressive.